Chapter M: HERZOG: I will submit to you an article which you wrote in June 1944,

a time when I think in your Germany there were not very many Jews still occupying important posts. This article appeared in a newspaper, _Die Pflicht_, which you published in the Gau of Thuringia. It is Document Number 857 which I offer to the Tribunal as Exhibit Number RF-1523. I shall read extracts from this article.

[_The document was handed to the defendant._]

First extract from Page 1, Column 1, the last paragraph but one:

“The old and finest virtues of the sailors, airmen, and soldiers
of Great Britain can no longer stop the Jewish plague of
corruption which is making such rapid ravages in the body of
their country.”

Then, on Page 2, Column 2, the last paragraph but one:

“There is no example in the history of the world to show that
anything of lasting value has been created in the course of
centuries by the Jews and their foolish followers who were bound
to them and corrupted by their customs and their women.”

I ask you, Defendant Sauckel, what did you mean by the “Jewish plague of corruption”?

SAUCKEL: I meant that it was the outward sign of disintegration within the nations.

M. HERZOG: I ask you again my question. What do you mean by the “Jewish plague of corruption”?

SAUCKEL: It was my opinion that disintegration had set in among the nations owing to certain Jewish circles. That was my view.